“The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on its shroud.”~ J G Ballard, Kingdom Come

local road race over th weekend...

"...can th us win th 'art olympics'? ...th state dept overhauled th process for choosing an artist for th venice biennale, it gave control to a woman who previously owned a pet food store..."* www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/a... * no offense intended [by me, @tusenoch.bsky.social] to pet store owners

This tree in London looks full of leaves but is actually covered in parakeets.

All you artists are doing such good work. Thank you.

Experimenting with hand-colouring pinhole photos with watercolours. I‘m terrible and impatient with painting, but it‘s turned the forest into something else and I quite like that.

At the harbour. #photography

I play guitar. This is my sheet music: 🎨Cy Twombly "Untitled" 1967

@pocketlint.bsky.social really enjoyed your interview, mark! learning about your creation process + more. look forward to hearing/reading more! ps : my bluesky user photo is a cyanometer

marvellous interview about the forthcoming @pocketlint.bsky.social album Wunderkammer

"...find someone in this world of furious burning who hears your life's great chaos as a song" ‐- @josephfasano.bsky.social

William James on the psychology of habit www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/16/w...

Rehabilitating the active imagination – Samantha Harvey on how to be a reader in the age of fractured attention www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/17/s...

this is terrible : www.outdoorlife.com/conservation... protect th boundary waters #BWCA + other natural spaces

In the end we're all part of the same regino, really 🥹

link : americanarchive.org via @dlondonwortel.bsky.social [thank you!] but on x

"Scotland" by palette knife painter Georgia Hart

"sorrow shared is sorrow halved. joy shared is joy doubled." . . . . . . . . . my recent joy was seeing bodeans in person a few days ago. my favorite song, live off "amped across america" : youtu.be/fA28UWNpg2I?... 🎶🎵💜 have you anything to share?

Salle de Crimée Sud, (98) ANR.02.035, Salles de l’Afrique, Aile du Nord, 1er étage, Château de Versailles, 2007 by Robert Polidori

William Kentridge. Video still from Waiting for the Sibyl, 2020.

Artist's soul corroded by assholism.

This day. 2025. Shoreham Power Station #photography

"RETINA CENTRE OF OTTAWA" [exterior wall panel], Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 04-21-22 🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan * [2026 edit] #photography #photo #ECK #EastCoastKin #wood #grain #grain #panel #design #decorative #frame #pattern #minimalism #texture #architecture #wall #symmetry #shape #geometric #detail

Just put out my biweekly #myphotographiclife It's a bit fragmented, but looks at the magic I felt and discovered after sharing this photo with my father. jonbuscall.substack.com/p/this-is-th...

Trying to remember how uncomfortable the middle can feel right up until i can find my balance. #htmhmickey #Stunday #ImageandVerse #ArtofSelfPortraiture

@urbankisses.bsky.social one of my musical favorites is coming to oslo : john hiatt johnhiatt.com he doesn't often tour near to me but i've seen him 5 or 6 times + i will go every chance i get! i don't know your music tastes but jh is a treasure. american songwriter, singer, guitarist. x

for tomorrow

old post of mine from twitterx : "...'good things' is my favo @bodeans song. if i'm not already up to th front [rare but it happens], this song gets me there + dancing..." x.com/i/status/194...

"...a chicago [music] fan's secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online" link from article in case you are not on x archive.org/details/@aad... via BlockClubCHI on x

Robert Frank. “When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” Hoboken, New Jersey. 1955. Railroad Station, Memphis, 1955. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. 1962. Downtown NYC, 1954.

worth reading www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

possibly th worst name for a business though th area gets some foot traffic, this sign/area is mostly seen from across parking + from cars. th small text [itself not fully explanatory that *they* will, apparently, pay *you* more] will likely go unnoticed.

"...even th boring stuff contains humanity" -- henry did it [youtube] on journaling youtu.be/LlDSjTxrnV8?...

"SEIZE TH MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS, LOVE + BE LOVED! that is th only reality in th world, all else is folly. it is th one thing we are interested in here." -- leo tolstoy via hermannhessed on x

There is so much love and kindness in this world being over shadowed by hatred and evil. It's time for the good to take our world back.

My favourite variant of “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is a colloquial (and extremely rare) Swedish phrase that goes kasta inte bäver i trähus. It means “do not throw beavers in wooden houses.”

for your consideration : a post over on x by @seanonolennon.bsky.social + all th comments... x.com/i/status/204...

"i'm a collector of shadows" -- john stezaker "[stezaker] destroys images to set them free" 17-minute watch youtu.be/OHOEEFXoqrg?... thank you to @urbankisses.bsky.social for sharing this x

"what were bob dylan + john lennon really saying in th back of that limo? a film scene of dylan + lennon at a low moment in 1966 has held a grim fascination for fans. beneath th repartee, a touchy issue was at stake..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/s...

"lost photos of th chelsea hotel in th 1970s lost for nearly four decades, a new book of albert scopin's photographs at th chelsea hotel capture a young patti smith, mapplethorpe, wenders + more..." www.anothermag.com/art-photogra... cc : @collettwriter.bsky.social

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be daunsinge.

. in the park .

Seven white doves.